Between Flower and Blade

This story begins with a lecture hall nap—and ends with a noose of rope around Kirijima Riko's wrists in a world that shouldn't exist. One moment she's dozing through a tedious university class. The next, she's bound, barefoot, and dragged through the mist-shrouded streets of what can only be the Sengoku period, wearing a body that isn't hers. Delicate hands. A stranger's face in a warped mirror. And a single, chilling fact whispered by the soldiers escorting her: the last concubine lasted four